Originally Posted by
Swiss Tony
I live on this line. We've got off lightly as they were going to shut for two weeks solid.
Anyway, in the past Stratford has been served by a shuttle from Leamington Spa, so you'll be looking at three trains minimum. This should however give you the option of taking Cross Country from Reading or Oxford to Leamington.
Is it worth seeing if you can go via Birmingham (so Virgin up there, then whoever operates straight down to Stratford)?
The replacement timetable should go up very soon - click through from here
http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/ti...-times/changes
Aha! I now see the timetables for early April, and presumably the horrific description for later in the month will have timetables added later. (The ones I'm seeing for earlier in the month don't have trains via Oxford, so presumably the engineering work is a bit of a different stripe those weekends.)
We have advance tickets. Would I have to check with Chiltern about what routing we're allowed to use? (I say allowed rather than supposed, because it would be nice to use the best routing even if that's not what Chiltern would prefer.) I am also not opposed to playing the dumb American card once on the train if there's something that it will allow us to get away with that's easier.